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Bush's European disaster
The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion and provocation masquerading as a respite from his troubles at home.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jun 14, 2007
The Libby lobby's pardon campaign
Having never expressed remorse for his crime, Scooter Libby instead enlisted his neoconservative friends to win him reduced prison time.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jun 7, 2007
America is not Bush
The damage the president has done to our country's reputation can be rebuilt -- by those who uphold our Founding Fathers' ideals.
By Sidney Blumenthal May 31, 2007
Wolfowitz's tomb
A lead architect of the Iraq war, he believed shock and awe would transform the Middle East. But his policies failed -- along with his tenure at the World Bank.
By Sidney Blumenthal May 24, 2007
All hail the king
Under Bush, loyalty has reigned supreme. But as his presidency unravels, his obligation to his faithful servants -- from Gonzales to Wolfowitz -- has become perilously relative.
By Sidney Blumenthal May 17, 2007
The impertinent prince
Bush plays naughty boy to the queen at his not-so-royal state dinner. But all those white ties couldn't hide his low poll numbers.
By Sidney Blumenthal May 10, 2007
George Tenet, spook for all seasons
The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
By Sidney Blumenthal May 3, 2007
From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib
To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 26, 2007
Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem
Not only did the World Bank president find his companion Shaha Ali Riza a cushy job in the State Department, but she received a security clearance -- unprecedented for a foreign national.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 19, 2007
Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis
It's up to Congress to save the executive branch from Bush's and Rove's radical experiment to transform it forever.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 12, 2007
Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion
Is the former Bush pollster a true believer turned disillusioned critic, or was he an opportunist from the get-go?
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 5, 2007
Follow the e-mails
The discovery of a previously unknown treasure chest of e-mails buried by the Bush administration may prove to be as informative as Nixon's secret White House tapes.
By Sidney Blumenthal Mar 29, 2007
What Bush is hiding
In the U.S. attorney scandal, Alberto Gonzales gave orders, but he also took them -- from Karl Rove, who plotted to turn the federal criminal justice system into the Republican Holy Office of the Inquisition.
By Sidney Blumenthal Mar 22, 2007
All roads lead to Rove
The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
By Sidney Blumenthal Mar 15, 2007
Libby and the White House book club
While Cheney's former aide prays for a presidential pardon, Bush and Rove hold forth in their neocon salon, and the coverup continues.
By Sidney Blumenthal Mar 8, 2007
How Cheney bombed in Afghanistan
The vice president slinks home from a disastrous trip where a failed assassination attempt was only the loudest proof that his war policies have emboldened al-Qaida and the Taliban.
By Sidney Blumenthal Mar 1, 2007
Libby's last disinformation campaign
Not only did Scooter's defense rely on emotion over facts, but it appealed to the jury to dismiss the craft of journalism as false by nature.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 22, 2007
Libby's cynical defense
In the courtroom, I watched Libby's lawyers grill Bob Woodward and Robert Novak, trying and failing to obscure the charges against the vice president's man.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 15, 2007
The Pentagon's not-so-little secret
As the president and Republicans continue to hype the surge -- and stifle debate about it -- Bush's own war planners are preparing for failure in Iraq.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 8, 2007
How Libby became Cheney's pawn
The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 1, 2007
State of indifference
Unlike past presidents dealing with the consequences of war, Bush has walled himself off from the public and the Congress it elected.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jan 23, 2007
The fighting side of McCain
Hitching his political wagon to Bush has hurt the senator's chances to become president. But as his political colleagues can attest, it's the Republican front-runner's volatile temper that may derail his Straight Talk Express for good.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jan 18, 2007
Shuttle without diplomacy
After signaling support for James Baker's Iraq proposals, Condi caved and stood faithfully by the president's failing policies -- assuring her irrelevance, and that of the State Department.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jan 10, 2007
No time to heal
Ford's posthumous condemnation of the Iraq war shows that the struggle for the soul of the GOP begun in the Nixon years is as relevant now as ever.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jan 3, 2007
Behind Bush's "new way forward"
A battered group of neocons delivered the president his latest war plan, letting him reject the grave warnings of the Iraq Study Group and deny that we're losing the war.
By Sidney Blumenthal Dec 20, 2006
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